On Monday, December 20, 2010 8:54:14 PM UTC+1, kaveh_shahbazian wrote: > > I understand hosting on a VM has it's own (huge) advantages: GC, > libraries, proved practices and vast amount of research and community > effort already available; no doubt on that part. > > It is just having a mature and well designed cross-platform natively > compiled language (other than C and C++) has it's own advantages (I do > not mean Clojure should go down that path; I was just asking). Some > high level languages come to mind like Haskell, OCaml, Gambit-C Scheme > (and for sure some others) but they lack in some areas and not fully > cross platform. > > Clojure is a fantastic language (Although I have just scratched the > surface) and It would be "nice" to have it natively compiled. >
It could be written on top of Common Lisp. There are natively compiled, multithreaded, cross-platform implementations of it, and building on another Lisp should be much easier than on C/C++. Of course, since Clojure programs often rely on Java libraries to do some of their work, porting won't be a no-brainer. -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Clojure" group. To post to this group, send email to clojure@googlegroups.com Note that posts from new members are moderated - please be patient with your first post. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to clojure+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/clojure?hl=en
